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OF THE BOYS.
The small boy has also been getting in some
lively advance work with frecracker and
squib, despite the harsh words of Mayor
Hewitt, which set forth that the firing of
guns, f~recrackers, squibs, etc, would not be
permitted within city limits. / saw an ex-
ample of it the other day. A tramp sat in
the shade of a wholesale coffee dealers avn
ing, sound asleep on a pile of sacks. As l
passed-rat-a-tat-fizz-a zz-bangl-a package
OF firecrackers had been slipped under him,
and with one yell Of horror the sleeper landed
in the middle of the street, rubbing the
damaged parts of his anatomy ruefully,
while the spectators roared. The ludicrous-
ness of his situation seemed to strike the fel-
low and he skunk away.
a friend walking with me at the time then
related the story of the vengeance that wns
once wrcaked on a big, overbearing bully bya
crowd of small boys who were trying, but in
vain, because of the bully's interference, to
celebrate the day of Independence in their
own way.
at was in '65," my friend said with great
particularly. 81 was at the age when all cor
rectly built American boys delight in fire
crackers and pin wheels aud their like and
had gone down to Waites grove with a dozen
or twenty of the neighbors' boys to have
some fun. Well, we had burned up all our
crackers and squibs and had exploded all our
torpedoes. To fill out the hours intervening
before it would be dark enough to set Off our
roman candles to advantage we went in
swimmin' in the creek that ran through the
grove. Old man Waite's son, who was larger
than any of us, came around with his pockets
full of reworSs and proceeded to throw our
clothes into the water by way of having
some preliminary fun before shooting off his
crackers and things. He had a fine new suit
of clothes on himself and spoke with contempt
of our poorer ard older garments.
"The boys were all inclined TO be mad, and
it was proposed to stone him in payment for
his meanncSs. But some one set out that it
would be better to wait till we were on shore
and then get even; so we dressed up in our
wet clothes and went ashore, protesting to
regard the fellows trick as the ~pleasantest
kind of pleasantly. He was greatly pulled
up by the fact that we took it so well, and
became very genial and patronizing. But
his complacency was shortlived, for some
one of the boys slipped up behind him
and touched n match to the fuse of u pack
of firecrackers that was sticking out of the
big boys pocket. In q moment there was n
circus, and then the laugh was on the other
side.
but we were all sorry for our trick
afterward, for the big fellow was so badly
burned that he was laid up for a week.
"His fine new suit was spoiled, too, but we
didn't care for that
Daniel Murphy, of the Fourth ward of
New York city, has taken a novel method of
perpetuating his love of the Emerald Isle and
correlative dislike of England. Mr.. Murphy
has erected his monument in advance of his
death, and a fine one it is. On the front of
the third step leading to the base he has had
these words deeply chiseled: "To outlast the
British monarchy" The monument attracts
much attention, as it stands in the new Cal.
vary cemetery in a very conspicuous place
The column is forty feet high, and supports a
handsome Greek cross, which is plainly seen
from n great distance. The column is of
gray granite, made by Ambrose Clancy from
a design furnished
Y by Mr.. Murphy
himself, after he
I'm had inspected many
M cemeteries to find a
nm good model. The
NA pedestal is Gothic,
EA three other styles
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NN in the plinth, shaft
MWA and capital, and the
MMA total cost was S2O,-
MMI 600. Mr.. Murphy
~ EMMA b. expects, Of course,
tSSkU|IS5IE to be laid in the plot
1yU%S9W$~SS0E~ SN beneath the monu.
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THE MURPHY MONUMENT. New Chambers
streets, enjoys fair health, though blind, and
takes solid comfort in the thought that he is
perpetuating his a%ntipathy of British rule ir
lasting granite.
Daniel Murphy is a scion of one Of the dis
possessed families of county Wexford, Ire
land. In the dark days of the Eighteenth
century his family lost their estates by ad
herring 10 the Catholic faith, and an ain
former" named Caren gained them; so hatre,
of British rules both n family and a religion
inheritance. Old as he is, he still hopes /,
live to see the British monarchy overthrow
He says he loves all those whom Englnn,
hates.
Tn New York parks TEEN with people dur
ing the summer. Saturday afternoons an